[isabelle-dev] Isabelle root access

2014-05-08 Thread Makarius
On Thu, 8 May 2014, mta-proj wrote: die Gruppe isabelle, in der Sie Mitglied sind, wurde mit desharna,fleury erweitert Membership of the isabelle Unix group means full root access to many administrative resources. Usually neither the one who grants the rights nor the one who receives them

Re: [isabelle-dev] Isabelle root access

2014-05-08 Thread Jasmin Christian Blanchette
Hi Makarius, Am 08.05.2014 um 12:32 schrieb Makarius makar...@sketis.net: On Thu, 8 May 2014, mta-proj wrote: die Gruppe isabelle, in der Sie Mitglied sind, wurde mit desharna,fleury erweitert Membership of the isabelle Unix group means full root access to many administrative

[isabelle-dev] isabelle root access

2013-07-10 Thread Makarius
The Lehrstuhl at TUM has this ancient tradition to hand out full root access (via the isabelle Unix group) to anybody who happens to get an account for any kind of project. This is a lot of power (and responsibility) and and recent years we had quite often the situation that neither the one

Re: [isabelle-dev] isabelle root access

2013-07-10 Thread Fabian Immler
Markus Westerlind is a student of mine. For his Bachelor's thesis he needs to carry out performance measurements on a machine with many cores (isabelle-server). His project is not directly related to Isabelle, so you are right that a full root access is too much, but it is the only way for him

Re: [isabelle-dev] isabelle root access

2013-07-10 Thread Makarius
On Wed, 10 Jul 2013, Fabian Immler wrote: Markus Westerlind is a student of mine. For his Bachelor's thesis he needs to carry out performance measurements on a machine with many cores (isabelle-server). His project is not directly related to Isabelle, so you are right that a full root access

Re: [isabelle-dev] isabelle root access

2013-07-10 Thread Fabian Immler
Exactly the same applies to Yutaka. Fabian Am 10.07.2013 um 13:30 schrieb Makarius makar...@sketis.net: On Wed, 10 Jul 2013, Fabian Immler wrote: Markus Westerlind is a student of mine. For his Bachelor's thesis he needs to carry out performance measurements on a machine with many cores